#eclipse is just an enthusiastic student with a small tsun tsun heart
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Chapter 1: The King’s Favorite
(As I said I had a new multi fic, but until I do a cover it won’t go on ao3, so for now enjoy! Second Chances and Angel Foodcake!)
He sighed as he worked on whipping the egg whites. He had another weird dream with that woman in it. The sad smile she wore made his chest ache. He gave a sigh as his brother stole an orange from the bowl on the counter.
“What’s with you?” Marcus asked as he started to peel the fruit. He shoved a slice in his mouth as Arulius set the bowl down and ruffled his hair.
“I had a weird dream---”
“Shocking.” Marcus’s tone was dry as he ate another orange slice, “Not Ru king of weird dreams. Isn’t that why you’re a writer?”
“Shut upppp.” Arulius sighed as he grabbed the other bowl and began to fold the whipped egg whites with the whipped cream, “Look I just. You try dreaming of the same woman night after night since you’re 16!”
“Nope. I don’t dream.” Marcus reminded him as he continued to eat, “maybe she’s your soul mate.”
“I doubt it. Considering I think shes my guard?” he frowned, “in the dream’s I’m married. I have kids. She’s just… she’s so sad.”
“Maybe circumstances kept your love unable to exist. If you find her when you aren’t hallucinating unconsciously flirt with her.” Marcus snickered as he finished his orange and threw the peel away, “Good luck with your sleeping beauty!” he grabbed his bag as he headed out, “oh and it’s your turn to do the dishes!”
“Fineee!” Arulius sighed as his brother left. He sighed and poured the batter into the pan. Undoing his apron he got to work on cleaning up.
“Kept it unable to exist…” he mused. He chuckled, there was no way.
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As he held the boxed cake on the subway he felt something was off. His stomach was uneasy. It wasn’t his first time on public transport with a dessert he didn’t want ruined, and yet. He grimaced.
“Are you okay?”
He looked up and his breath caught in his throat. Long curly black hair held back with a blue ribbon, large eyes in two different colors (Black on the right side, bright blue on the other), mouth drawn in concern as a small fang stuck out, she furrowed her brow as she looked at him.
“Are you okay?” she asked again.
He gasped, “Um yeah! Sorry my stomach’s got butterflies!” he admitted nervously.
“Interview?” she asked with a small laugh, “you’re really pale so I was worried, maybe you should get off soon and rest before continuing.”
“No I’m just, going to my book club.” he laughed, “I promised to bring cake.”
“Oh? Which one?” she covered her mouth in shock, “you aren’t heading to Horizon Group are you?”
He blinked a few times, mouth twitching, “I am…”
She laughed, “My brother attends that! I was going to get his car keys!” She sat beside him and he felt his heart racing, “I’m Eclipse! Sena’s my elder brother!” she explained.
He gasped, “Ah! I can see it!” he realized as he looked at her, “you do look like him.”
“I know right? If people don’t know they tend to not notice but when they know its clear we’re related!” she laughed and looked at the cake, “Sweets, so you must be Arulius right?”
He felt his cheeks growing warm and nodded, “how did you?”
“My brother says you often bring snacks for meet ups! And you always get new cookbooks!” she giggled and he felt his face growing warmer. She touched her lips with a grin, “Actually he brought some of the cookies you made last week, the raisin oatmeal were really good~! I was sad I couldn’t try your chocolate chip ones though.” she gave a saddened sigh.
“Ah? I can make some…” he offered and she shook her head.
“I’m allergic to chocolate but the hospital trip was very tempting they smelt so good~!” she laughed.
“Ah.” he put a hand to his mouth, “White chocolate?” he asked. He knew it wasn’t a “true” chocolate.
She shook her head, “No, my allergy is a bit severe.” she gave a dejected sigh, “most white chocolate is processed in the same plants so…”
“What if I made it from scratch?” he asked with his head tilted, “Candy melts?” he wondered.
She turned red, “y-you don’t have to do that! I was just complimenting your baking!! It’s really good!”
He gave a soft smile, “well when we get to the meeting, want some of this?” he held the cake, “it’s a whipped cream cake! Kinda like angel food cake but it has whipped cream IN the cake.” he explained.
She gasped and covered her mouth, “That sounds good! Is that alright though? Isn’t it for the others?”
“Well I brought it to share, and I’m sure it’s fine, I always leave with leftovers.” he explained. His heart wouldn’t stop pounding. Something about the young woman was familiar to him (other than her being Sena’s sister. Something was there.) and something told him to be on good terms.
“If you want, I bake a lot, i can always send some stuff with your brother, or you can join teh club!” he grinned.
She turned bright red, “N-no I couldn’t! It’s fine! I-I don’t have time for it I need t-to finish my thesis!”
“Thesis?” he asked with a tilt of his head.
“Yeah! I’m doing a report on the fallen Solgarian kingdom!” she clapped.
Solgario? He blinked as that rang in his head. His dreams. He remembered that name.
“History major?” he asked as she nodded happily.
“I’m working on my Master’s! I want to curate a museum!” she admitted with mirth, “I love studying old things and I love the sotries of the last king!”
“Yeah? I can’t say I know much. Tell me?” He checked the stops, they had time.
“Oh where to begin!” she beamed, happily like a cocker spaniel, “King Luka Thatcher Law was the last king of the empire, he was married to Queen Vanessa Everfrost and they had a daughter together! Sadly tragedy struck. First the death of the king’s personal aide to poison, the death of the princess, and then the king himself withered away.” she sighed, “The queen was the last monarch but a war struck and she was unable to fend it so the kingdom fell.”
“That’s… that’s horrible…” Arulius tensed up. The butterflies were worse.
“There’s some theories the queen herself poisoned the guard, you see King Luka and the guard knew each other as children, and she was the daughter from the only ducal household---”
“A female guard?” Arulius’s chest hurt, “What was her name?”
“Amaris---”
He felt his chest pinch and his vision fogged.
“Ah!” Eclipse shouted as he slumped forward.
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His head hurt. He jolted and sat up in bed. He looked around confused at the lavish space. He frowned. This wasn’t the hospital or subway. He covered his mouth in thought, long black hair falling over his shoulder. He blinked and looked at the curl, then his hands. He stared at the callouses that weren’t in their normal spots.
“What…?” he covered his mouth in shock at his voice. What happened?! He got up and whacked his head on the bedframe, before crumpling to the ground.
“Mmmmy looooord are you okay?” came a singsong tone.
His mouth moved on its own, “I’m fine Amaris.” he covered his mouth in shock.
“I’m coming in.”
Before he could stop her the door swung open and the black-armored knight stepped in, her silver hair cropped short and fluffing around her face, large eyes of black and blue, scars on her cheeks. She gasped and ran over to help him up.
“My lord!” she fretted as she helped him stand and dusted him off, “Dear me why on earth are you on the floor?!” She looked up and paled. Her gloves were removed and she reached up to stroke his face.
He sniffled as the tears pooled and dripped. She was here. Alive.
“Lu?” she asked softly, “Luka what’s wrong?”
“S-sorry just. Had a bad dream.” he muttered. She snorted and raised her hands, a soft light emitting off her hands.
“Pain pain go away leave Luka’s heart calm and pure~!” she sang happily. He felt a bit lighter and sighed as he rested his cheek in her hand.
“Such a competent Nightingale.” He chuckled. He took her hand in his as she laughed, giving him a sad smile that made his chest sting. The smile he always saw her wear in his dreams.
“Of course, I’m your head guard for a reason~!” she hummed, “Come on now, the queen has been crying all morning for you.” she sighed heavily, “Pregnant women are difficult to deal with. Or is it just Vanessa?”
He shuddered. Vanessa. Luka. Amaris. His golden eyes grew wide.
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He gasped as he sat up and winced. Eclipse held her hands cautiously near him, afraid to touch him.
“A-Aruli--” she squeaked when he wrapped his arms around her, tangling his fingers in his hair as he tried to stop crying. She whined but slowly wrapped her arms around him.
“Pain pain go away…” She mumbled and he felt a small breeze and a lightness in his chest. He pulled away and she wiped his eyes. “You okay?” she asked with worry.
“Just… Sorry, I’ve had weird dreams lately… was that..magic?”
She turned red and shook her head, “I-it’s just an old wives tale you know---” her eyes were spinning and she wouldn’t meet his gaze. He chuckled.
“Sure, okay. Say I believed that.”
She stared at him confused as he simply smiled.
He hated to admit it, but maybe his brother was right on something.
“Magic’s neat.” He watched her turn red and look away ashamed.
“Um… are you two done?” the train conductor asked as he scratched his head. Tired violet eyes looking at the two.
“I’m fine! I just didn’t sleep well it seems!” Arulius lied. He moved to stand and wobbled. Eclipse supported his side and he tried to get his stomach to behave. He gasped, “nooo my cake.” he saw the box on the floor and reached for it. He sighed seeing it ruined.
“What stop is this?” He asked.
“You should go to a hospital I think.” Eclipse fretted as he headed towards the door while holding her hand.
“No i’m fine really! I just have had issues sleeping!” he explained, “so I have weird dreams, it just so happened the name you mentioned reminded me of them so I passed out.”
She frowned and reached to put a hand on his forehead. He hadn’t noticed before but her body spray had a slight pine smell to it, pine and honey. Lavender too?
“You’re a little warm. Let’s go to the bookstore, I’ll get Sena’s keys and drive you to the hospital.” she insisted. “I don’t want you passing out like the train. To think you’re feeble bodied.” she sighed.
“Should a witch joke about that?” he teased as she turned red.
“I-it wasn’t magic! Honest to goodness! I’m not! I’m not!” she fretted as he snickered.
“What’s your familiar?” he asked as she tried to hide her face, “why are you so embarrassed?”
“W-Why you ask! You keep instigating I’m a w-witch do you know how they are seen?! Wannabes who think they can be hot shit just cuz they can fly o-or heal things!” she pouted as her hair fluffed up, “No one likes witches!!”
“I do.” he opened the door of the bookstore.
“Sena your friend is insane!” she insisted as the eyepatch wearing shop owner turned confused. He tilted his head and saw Arulius behind her.
“Ah, Pia you know Ru?” he asked confused as she slammed her hands on the desk with a huff.
“We met on the train.” Arulius set the ruined cake down, “I had a bit of an incident and passed out.”
“Well you’re pretty weak.” Sena snorted, “Pia what’s the issue though? He’s insane?”
“I told her I like witches.”
Sena snorted and had to kneel behind the desk to hide his laughter.
“SEE HE’S INSANE!” she was completely red in the face.
“W-Why would…” Sena snorted and laughed, “what brought this on?”
“Pain pain go away.” Arulius sang, causing the bookseller to start laughing harder.
“YOU USED A HEALING SPELL ON HIM!” he wheezed as her hair fluffed up.
“I-I didn’t! I didn’t! I’m not a witch! Witches are--”
“The one in front is really cute.” a litted voice laughed as the black haired individual slid down the railing from the second floor, “hey Ru, why is my husband dying?”
“I said I like witches and Eclipse is throwing a fit.” Arulius chuckled.
“Pia used a healing spell on him Love! And acting like she’s not a w-witch!” Sena cackled.
“Well she has always hated that term, you guys aren’t even witches technically.” Love shut an eye, “you’re what, like half fae?”
“Something like that.” Eclipse grumbled as she tried to fix her hair, “B-But he’s still weird! Give me the car keys he needs a hospital!”
“Naw he’s fine.” Love looked at the young writer, “seems he may have a magic his own.”
“Naw, I’m boring.” Arulius held his hands up, “weird dreams and a writer. That’s it!”
“Weird dreams he says.” Sena tried to stop laughing.
Eclipse groaned, “I’m not a witch! Witches are mean and ugly and haughty! I’m not! I didn’t sue magic! I’m---” She flinched when Arulius covered her eyes with his hand. Instantly she relaxed against him. He blinked in surprise that had actually worked.
Sena stared at the two and blinked a few times as he finally got his composure back, “well then. Are you sure you aren’t magic?”
“I’m really not.” Arulius laughed, “my dad’s a lawyer and my mom teaches pre-k. We’re just an average family.” he laughed, “Honestly, I just. Have weird dreams. I thought this may help.” he slowly removed his hand as she peeked at him with a completely reddened face.
He smirked and she squeaked and looked away. He couldn’t help the dumb grin, “hey Sena.”
“What?” the book seller raised his brow.
“Would you kill me for trying to seduce your sister?”
The entire shop went silent.
The silver haired shop keep’s eye twitched.
“WHAT?!”
#Second chances and Angel Food cake AU#fan fiction#ahit au#ahit prince#ahit moonjumper#ahit fan character#ahit shapeshifter#writing#Eclipse Guardian#Prince Arulius#Sena the threadsmith#Marcus Johnathan Cornelius Law#Craft Tailor#change of pace with ru being the one remebmering past lives#eclipse is just an enthusiastic student with a small tsun tsun heart
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